Imported anti-Islamists…

Someone put it to me like this, ‘bloody foreigners, come here stealing our racism’. Still, this crew are curious. The self-styled Soldiers of Odin. Formed in Finland (natch – given the Odin reference) last year they’ve moved quickly. Their goal is about as noxious as one can get.

They claim their aim is to prevent street crimes committed by Muslims, despite security sources saying they have encountered no such problems.

Though unsurprisingly scratch the surface and they’re even more noxious.

Islam is not the group’s only target. The Irish chapter recently posted a picture of US president Barack Obama and asked their supporters to describe him in one word. ‘Chimpanzee’, ‘subhuman’ and ‘negro’ were among the responses.

And there’s something bathetic in the following, and yeah I mean bathetic.

A spokesman for the group told the Sunday World earlier this month that they hadn’t come across any Muslims committing crimes and went on to say they hadn’t even met one Muslim so far.

Someone I know unrelated to left politics saw a couple of them up on the north side of the city and was sufficiently curious to look them up online and didn’t like what they saw.

This is class.

Sources in Carlow say Obadia and pals have been spotted on patrol in the area – along with several other towns around the country.
One Carlow witness said: “Their street patrol the day I saw them involved coming out of post office, walking up Tullow Street as far as Hadden’s or Shaw’s and coming back down. I call that walking up and down Tullow Street, but what would I know.”